The rain stopped and the dark clouds dispersed. The sky has returned to its original state, dusk is over, and night is approaching.
Maya is over. I don’t know when it will come next, and Xia Lei doesn’t know if he can still see it. But as far as his wishes were concerned, he didn't want to see it again. As the time in the dark world of death prolongs, he misses his wife and children on earth and the wife and children on the Star of Hope more and more intensely.
But there is still no clue about that mission, and it seems far away.
Lava City.
Several Lava City generals led Xia Lei and Qing Teng towards the city gate. From a distance, they saw the city defenders standing on the city gate tower. Some were very old men, and some were young teenagers. The Lord of Blood City took away almost all the young men in order to avenge his son, leaving only some old, weak, women and children in the city.
"General Blood River is back. Did we win the battle?"
"Why are there only a few people?"
"Could it be..."
"Shh, don't talk nonsense, or you'll be sent to the underworld!"
There was a murmur of discussion on the city gate tower.
The Xuehe they mentioned was the highest-ranking among these generals. He had the same surname as Xuecheng and was a collateral relative. He also holds the same noble title as Young Master Blood Moon, Baron of the Black Sun Empire.
Xia Lei didn't care about his surname or his title. What he cared about was the rights and status that Xuehe had in the prisoner camp, as well as his reputation. If he wants to control Lava City, this Blood River is the best candidate. That's why he chose Xuehe and asked him to take him and Nightingale to Lava City.
Not only Xia Lei and Nightingale came, but also Suspended City. It was right above the village he had been to, in a 1.5 micro-dimensional state.
Now it seems that the decision to seize the floating city was extremely wise. This city that can enter the 1.5 micro-dimension has become his base for venturing into the dark world of death and completing his mission. It is indispensable.
"Open the city gate!" Xue He shouted loudly when he came to the city gate.
The city gate opened, and Xuehe and several generals led Xia Lei and Nightingale into the lava city.
The streets of Lava City are more spacious and gorgeous than those of Ash City. Walking on the streets of Lava City, Xia Lei can tell at a glance that the economic development of Lava City is much better than that of Ash City. However, after two brutal wars, the streets here were sparsely populated, and few shops on both sides of the streets were open.
When pedestrians on the street saw Xuehe and several generals, they either avoided it or bowed their heads to show respect.
At the end of a straight street, a magnificent and magnificent castle came into Xia Lei's sight.
"Your Majesty the Dragon King, that is the residence of the Lord of Blood City, Blood Castle." Xue He said.
"Take me in, you should know where I want to go." Xia Lei said calmly, with an irresistible majesty in his voice.
Xuehe lowered his head, "I know, please come with me."
Xia Lei's eyes suddenly moved to an alley next to the Blood Castle, and a middle-aged man came into his sight. The man's body stood behind the wall, just sticking his head out and looking this way.
When their eyes met, the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then retracted his head.
Xuehe also looked over, but he didn't see anything.
Xia Lei didn't say anything. He followed Xue He into the Blood Castle hall.
As soon as you enter the hall, the luxurious atmosphere of the city rushes towards you, and your eyes are filled with blood-colored amber, the walls, the dome and even the floor. The light is refracted by the blood-colored amber, and blood-colored light waves are rippling in the hall at any time, rippling like endless ripples in the breeze.
Although Xia Lei had the imagination to live the luxurious life of his father and son in Blood City and imagined the luxury of Blood Castle, he was still shocked when he was in such a hall. Russia's Amber Palace is world-famous, but it pales in comparison to the Amber Hall in front of you.
"Can these ambers be dismantled?" After watching for a while, Xia Lei couldn't help but say something. If you take these ambers back to the floating city, build a room, and gather Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao and Diao Chan to die, wouldn't life be happy
Xue He was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "If it can be dismantled, I will have someone dismantle it immediately and present it to His Majesty the Dragon King."
"Don't be in a hurry, take me to see the treasure house in Blood City." Xia Lei said. A hall was already so luxurious, and he was full of expectations for the treasure trove of Blood City.
"Your Majesty the Dragon King, please follow me." Xue He walked towards a corridor on one side of the hall.
Xia Lei followed him and observed the surrounding environment from the corner of his eyes.
Nightingale leaned close to Xia Lei's ear and said, "You have forgotten the most important thing, the heart of Lava City. That is the most valuable trophy."
"No hurry, no rush." Xia Lei said with a smile.
Nightingale, "…"
Take away the heart of the city in Lava City? Xia Lei actually thought about this question again, but he thought of more than just this, there were other things. The geographical environment of Lava City is completely different from Ash City. There is an active volcano behind this city. The reason why people here can survive is because the rune blood crystals in the floating city provide an energy shield. If he takes away the heart of the city of Lava City, the volcanic ash and poisonous gas will directly cover the city, and there will be no grass growing here at that time.
Although it is a hostile city, if he really does this, what is the difference between him and those inhuman war monsters in history
There is a door at the end of the corridor. Open the door, and behind the door is a stone staircase extending underground. Oil lamps were lit on the walls, the dim light illuminated the stairs, and there were murals carved on the stone walls.
Most of the contents on the murals are legends of gods and ghosts, and there are also some pure artistic sculptures, including women's bodies, exposed breasts, etc., which are lifelike. If these sculptures were brought to the earth, they would definitely be world-shaking art treasures, and any one of them could be fetched for a sky-high price.
After experiencing the Star of Hope and the world of darkness and death, Xia Lei sighed in his heart, that is, the earth is really too small, as insignificant as a grain of sand in this cosmic world.
At the end of the stone staircase is a stone door, which is extremely thick and weighs at least tens of thousands of kilograms according to visual inspection.
There are more than a dozen carvings inlaid on the stone door. Some are animals, such as steel lizards and ghost horses, as well as people, such as children, old men and women, and warriors. There are also some words about the night watchmen, but there is nothing coherent about them. The special meaning is that it is an obviously wrong sentence.
Xue He said: "Your Majesty the Dragon King, behind this stone gate is the treasure house of the Lord of Blood City, but only the Lord of Blood City and Young Master Xueyue know the password to open the treasure house door." He pointed to the carvings on the stone door and said, "These things It’s the password, and you need to press them all, but in the correct order, otherwise the door will be locked and trigger an alarm that can be heard throughout the process.”
Nightingale frowned, "There are sixteen carvings in total, which means that the password of Blood City is a sixteen-digit password. He is really a miser." Then she added, "General Blood River, this door can destroy Drop it?"
"Yes, but it will take a lot of time." Xuehe seemed very polite when speaking to Nightingale. But this is not because she is the lord of Ashes City, but because of Xia Lei.
"Do you want me to destroy this door?" Nightingale was eager to try.
"No, the departure alarm is noisy. Let me open it." Xia Lei walked under the stone door, and then used his perspective vision to penetrate the carvings and reach the mechanisms inside the stone door.
Xue He said: "Your Majesty the Dragon King, locking it will be very troublesome, so just blast it open. No one can unlock the code of this door. Once there was a gang of thieves from the imperial capital of Doomsday City who came to steal, but they ended up here. Under the code of the stone gate. Their cryptographers tried to decipher the secret of the stone gate, but when they set off the alarm, they were caught."
Xia Lei suddenly reached out and pressed a carving of a steel lizard, and then quickly pressed on different carvings with his hands. He moved quickly and pressed down all the carvings in a blink of an eye.
Click click click…
A series of sounds of machine operation came from inside the stone door, and amid the sound, the stone door slowly opened.
Xuehe and several Lava City generals looked at Xia Lei dumbfounded. They couldn't understand how Xia Lei did it, but their eyes when looking at Xia Lei were full of awe. This man who dared to go against Diaro, the God of Death, and who wiped out all the hundreds of thousands of troops in the underworld, had a strong sense of mystery about him and was omnipotent!
Xia Lei walked into the treasure house, and the sight that greeted him made him open his mouth slightly.
This treasure house is piled with mountains of black gold coins, top-quality blood crystals, beautiful art treasures, and boxes upon boxes of gems of various colors. Those gems are not rubies, emeralds or the like on the earth. Each one contains unique energy. The most exaggerated thing is a pink gemstone statue, which depicts a handsome man. It is life-size and has human facial features, but no hair. The man's body has a perfect shape. Whether it is the lines of individual muscles or the overall lines of the body, it is impossible to find any faults.
Xia Lei also has such a body, which represents perfect evolution.
Without hair, Xia Lei suddenly remembered something in his mind, "The man created by this statue looks a lot like the Axis I have seen. Could it be that he is from the Spirit Tribe?"
At this time, Nightingale suddenly walked towards the middle of the treasure house and said excitedly: "Look! That's the heart of Lava City, the Rune Blood Crystal!"
Xia Lei's eyes moved over and he saw a stone platform and the rune blood crystal placed on the stone platform, which was the heart of the city of Lava City. He was slightly surprised because the Heart of the City placed on the stone platform was almost twice the size of the Heart of City of Ashes City!
Xuehe and several Lava City generals suddenly knelt down. Xuehe said: "Your Majesty the Dragon King, please don't take away the heart of Lava City, because once you take it away, this place will be destroyed and everyone will be destroyed." They are homeless, and most people will not be able to survive if they leave here. Please, His Majesty the Dragon King, let go of the civilians in this city, they have nothing to lose."
Xia Lei withdrew his gaze from the city star and smiled slightly, "I didn't say I wanted to take it away. Tell me, what is the origin of this statue?"